The loot in Diablo 4 has always been a problem. Not only because of the lack of good loot, but also because of the screen clutter that keeps increasing. But with that flood of gear on your screen, comes the old recurrent question: where is our loot filter, Blizzard?
It is a debate that has been going on since launch, and now, as season go and loot keeps piling up on our screens, the community is asking louder than ever: is it time yet?
It Is a Mess Out Here
Forum threads and social posts are once again flooded (just like our inventories) with requests for a proper loot filter. After 9 seasons, players are sick of having to pick up everything and anything, and loose a good hour sorting their stashes and inventory afterward, hoping to have gotten one or two items that they can use for their builds! Loot filters would allow those who want, to directly sort the loot before it gets picked up.
Players are currently annoyed at:
- Too much junk. 99% of drops are still vendor trash, and it is a loss of time.
- Piles of gear on the ground make it hard to see. It is even worse if you play with a controller, as you can not choose what you pick up, you have to pick up literally everything that is on the ground.
- Inventory is constantly full, you always have to TP back and forth to empty.
- New seasons often add even more loot, and sure that sounds great. But only until you are stuck with even more loot on your screen and inventory.
- Some players say they cut sessions short just to avoid the tedious grind of sorting bad gear.
Many are asking for features like:
- A customizable loot threshold, to auto-salvage or auto-sell below a certain quality.
- Affix filters or highlights, to spot the stats that we need more easily.
- Gear that passes filters could go directly to a dedicated stash tab.
- Some even suggest giving pets the ability to auto-salvage filtered gear.
- Make pets pick up automatically filtered loot
- Ability to filter gear type and stats (such as Wands only, or specific resource stats etc)
What Are Devs Saying?
The loot filter conversation is not new, and Blizzard knows about it, and has responded before. In a Q&A earlier this year, Diablo 4 dev Aislyn Hall explained the current goal around Loot Filters: “We want you to essentially utilize all the parts of the animal.”
In other words, this means that for them, every item has value even if you are just salvaging it. They worry that a loot filter would lead players to ignore too much and could disrupt how the in-game economy functions. A lot of players think that this statement makes currently no more sense, as we anyway do not pick up everything anymore.
Since the addition of Greater Affixes, a ton of players, once they reached endgame and have really good gear already, they will just not pick up anything anymore, unless it is a Greater Affixe, unique, or mythic item.
That said, the idea is not off the table entirely. Hall also clarified that they will not say “never” to a loot filter, and anything can always still happen.
Basically, it is not for now, but maybe one day. Since they plan on reworking the game, and have already announced that big changes are coming soon, maybe loot filters are actually part of those changes! Only the future will tell, so stay tuned!
